Again thou observest well, Sir Launcelot." "Item four, a rosy young face which the firelight makes more rosy, and a crown of golden hair, which this same firelight turns to deeper gold." "Correct, ye Squire of Fair Ladies; and now, lead on!" They entered the great house and found it already filled with officers and women, most of whom were young.

The visitors had brought with them the best supplies that the farms could furnish, turkeys, chickens, hams, late fruits well preserved, and, above all, that hero-worship with which they favored their champions.

To these girls and their older sisters the young officers who had taken part in so many great battles were like the knights of old, splendid and invincible.
There was no warning note in all that joyous scene, although a hostile army of one hundred and thirty-five thousand men and four hundred guns lay on the other side of the river which flowed almost at their feet.
It seemed to Harry afterward that they danced in the very face of death, caring nothing for what the dawn might bring.
Stuart was in great feather.

In his finest apparel he was the very life and soul of the ball, and these people forgot for a while the desolation into which war was turning their country.

The Virginia band and the Acadians carried on an intense but friendly rivalry, playing with all the spirit and vigor of men who were anxious to please.